India’s airports face infrastructure crisis
Airport Authority of India chairman, VP Agrawal, told delegates attending ACI Asia-Pacific’s recent regional conference in Delhi that India had to face the challenges of “phenomenal†traffic growth head on, and build new airports and upgrade others to avoid a future shortfall in capacity. 


Yearly double-digit traffic growth has seen throughput at Indian airports rise from 84 million passengers and 850,000 aircraft movements in 2005 to 124 million passengers and 1.3 million aircraft movements last year. 


And with industry forecasts predicting that traffic numbers at Indian airports will reach 300 million and possibly up to 450 million passengers per annum by 2020, the need for new capacity enhancing facilities cannot be understated.
“Just think about this. Indian aviation may have to handle an extra 300 to 320 million passengers per annum within the next 10 years,†said Yashwant Bhave, chairman of the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India.


Delegates learned that the growth would be driven by a rise in domestic traffic and that much of the US$30 billion worth of new infrastructure likely to be required over the next 15 years would be funded by private investors, both from within India and overseas. 


“Today, less than two percent of Indians fly domestically each year, and only 0.5% internationally, so the growth potential is enormous,†added Bhave.
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